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What a disaster. I hope that he is ok. Maybe if the school didn't have a half day every other week, this would have been avoided. I still can't figure out what good comes from two early release days a month. The achievement gap isn't improving. Kids need to be in school to for that to happen.

The school got out at 11:00 that day & the kid was hit about 40 minutes before he would have normally have been out of school. I don't think you can blame early release on that one. The District IS lowering the achievement gap, however that is not the only charge they have as the main goal is to educate ALL our children. I surely wish people would stop using an achievement gap to justify or quantify everything. Lastly, I do totally agree that the early release, as practiced by this District, makes no sense educationally or otherwise.